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Walter Sabo is the Chairman of Sabo Media, a company that offers executive-on-demand services. He has worked on-site to build out new digital content platforms such as Sirius/XM. His team was the first to discover the marketing clout of web stars, Internet organic video producers.  They... more

FM Talk Management Insight to Profits - If Every Station was a Talk Station - Walter Sabo
By Walter Sabo

Radio's original programming slate was completely random. As a new, experimental medium, all radio stations aired a vast array of programming from Operas to farm news to live music. Until 1940 there was an actual LEGAL debate about whether or not... more


Online Video Is Not TV. A New Audience Builder for You - Walter Sabo
By Walter Sabo

For the past five years, our team has done a deep dive into online video. Our digital video company, HITVIEWS invested over two million dollars to discover the most effective methods for gathering audience using online video. As with most studies of new media, the results are counterintuitive. Some are shocking. All are useful to building... more


Make the CMO Position Successful. Five Secrets Revealed. - Walter Sabo
By Walter Sabo

The joke between CMO's is that their job has less tenure than a boy band. The Chief Marketing Officers I've met are wicked smart and highly effective idea-sellers. The reason CMO's are desperately challenged in holding on to their jobs is rooted in the nature of their lines of reporting.

Logically, they report to the CEO or COO. Problem: ... more


Five Reasons Your Vision Isn't Happening ...New Solutions. - Walter Sabo
By Walter Sabo

You read a how-to-manage book and think, "That isn't quite right. That doesn't synch with the real world." You're right. How-to-manage books are often steeped in a utopian, MBA course view of corporate life.

Common sense and gut instinct is ignored in these books and therefore their advice is rarely effective in the field. For... more


Five Lessons from Content Controversy - Walter Sabo
By Walter Sabo

If a brand over-reacts, they are part of the problem.

For decades, radio hosts have made comments or played songs that have caused discomfort to their advertisers. How advertisers react to those moments actually can have more negative impact on their brand image than anything said by the radio host.

Typically, an... more



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